Things To Look Forward To

A few things to look forward to in the coming weeks. First up is the Peenko vs Aye Tunes gig at the Captain’s Rest on Friday 30th April. Featured bands are MPT favourites Kid Canaveral and Mitchell Museum. KC have of course featured several times in recent months in these pages and will do so…

The Orchestra’s Arriving Shortly

Record Store Day – TV21 @ Avalanche Records, Edinburgh, 17th April Despite the uncertainty over the flights over the weekend we still decided to offload the kids as planned. But whilst doing so we got confirmation that the flights were off. Weekend ruined. Well, not quite. Getting home on Thursday evening I picked up a reminder…

Bury Me Deep In … Volcanic Ash

Now, I don’t fly very often, so what were the chances that our trip to see the Triffids in Hasselt would be scuppered by an Icelandic volcano? But that’s what’s happened and there isn’t anything I can do about it, no matter how big a disappointment it is. I simply couldn’t believe it yesterday morning…

Winter Maintenance

With the release last month of their third studio LP ‘Winter of Mixed Drinks’ Frightened Rabbit for the first time found themselves with a weight of expectation on their shoulders. Not only did they have to follow up the brilliant ‘Midnight Organ Fight’ but there was a growing belief that the band stood on the…

Holding On To Days Gone By

Cherry Red through their Rev-ola label have just issued ‘Snakes and Ladders’, a compilation which pulls together  most of the tracks from TV21’s early singles along with (finally!) the tracks from debut LP ‘A Thin Red Line’. But writing about the record is a slightly tricky proposition. due to its prominence in my early musical…